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The Freeman December 1952 A Wartime T,estament The New Look in Soviet ,Policy Our Rotting Doll rs photograph by crArazien are Canning Fruits and Juices in the Never-ending Search for Better Steel "Putting up" prunes and fruit juices may seem like By measuring the vacuum loss, as it occurs, tech­ an odd occupation for steel technicians. But, at one nicians can estimate what the life of the test cans of J&L's laboratories, where tin plate for food would be under normal storage. rrhis knowledge containers is evaluated, canning is one of the many helps in controlling the quality of tin plate to make test procedures~ sure canned foods on your grocer's shelf continue The food is packed in cans made from selected to have long storage life. lots of J&L tin plate, thin steel coated with tin, Quality control guides every step. in the produc­ sealed, and cooked at sterilizing temperature. The tion of J&L tin plate and other steel products. It cans of food are placed in a controlled temperature combines with research-another of the activities storage room, where the heat accelerates any action that go on behind the J&L tradennark-to assure that may be reducing the vacuum within the can. better steel for every application. JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL CORPORATIDN PITTSBURGH 30, PA~ THE A. Fortnightly Our Contribut.ors For WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN, former Moscow correspondent and a frequent contributor to Individualists the Free/man, recently returned from Europe reeman with data on the Kremlin's "new look" policies. ••• WILLARD M. FOX is Director of Market Re­ Editors JOHN CHA~lHE.RLAIN FORUEST DAVIS search at Remington Rand, Inc. and' has writ­ Nlanagiug Edilor SUZANNE LA .FOLLETTE ten a couple of books in his field.... RENE KUHN is nov; on the foreign news desk of a weekly magazine. Freeman readers will re­ Contents YOLo 3, NO.7 DECEMBER 29, 1952 member her correspondence from Britain, in­ cluding interviews with Aneurin Bevan and Cover Cartoon by CHARLES LOCKE Herbert Morrison. Editorials RALPH DE TOLEDANO, an associate editor of Newsweek, is author of the recent book "Spies The Fortnight , 221 Dupes and Diplomats," from which the Free~ The Durkin Aftermath ,, 223 man ran a preview article, "Moscow Plotted Study in Slow l\iotion , 223 Pearl Harbor." (June 2, 1952). ... ALICE Snafu in Germany , ,....... 224 WIDENER'S Freeman series on the UN was fea­ The Other France · j" 224 tured on two television programs this month. In the Libraries !.. 225 Mrs. Widener is no stranger to the air waves. An Editor's Notebook FORREST DA~IS 226 As Alice Berezowsky she had her own suc­ cessful radio program, "Women of the World." Articles Another article in her series will appear in an The New Look in Soviet Policy early issue.... JOSEPH S. ROUCEK, who contrib­ WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLiN 227 utes his first book review to the Free/man, is a The New Logic BEN RAY REDM4N 230 professor of sociology at the University of Our Rotting Dollars WILLARD M. F~X 231 Bridgeport, and co-editor of the well-known The UN's Pink Sisters ALICE WIDEN~R 233 book on national minorities, "One America." Our Juvenile Pundits RENE KUI{N 238 A Wartime Testament RALPH DE TOLEDA*O 240 Among Ourselves The Winning Side JOHN A. LUKApS 242 The tired mailman who is the patron Yuletide Books saint of Freeman editors has been delivering A Reviewer's Notebook JOHN CHAMBERLAiN 244 seasonal cheer in the form of appreciative let­ Chodorov: Complete Individualist THADDEUS ASHlj3Y 245 ters-and checks-from subscribers. Here are Report for Ike. ................... .. MORRIE RYSKI*D 247 some of the comments that have enhanced the The Realism of Spain THOMAS G. BERGfN 247 traditional glow of the season for us. Satellite Europe JOSEPH S. ROUC:¢K 248 A Seattle housewife writes: "Louis Brom­ Saga of Copper ASHER BRYN~S 248 field's 'liberals' have such a stranglehold on my finances that I have been tardy in renew­ Brief Mention j•• 249 ing my subscription to your excellent maga­ POenlS zine," but adds that our articles provide a Quo Yadis? ADELAIDE HERI*G 226 "long-needed tonic for nerves mangled by Ballade for Bureaucrats DON KNOWLTON 232 twenty years of the New Deal." A professor in Madrigal Not to Be Reprinted CHRISTOPHER MORL~Y 241 a New England college renews his subscrip­ Katyn Forest. ........ .. .. .. HIRAM LYDAY SLOANAl{~R 243 tion with "It is nloney well spent!" An Army Corporal sends twenty dollars-"and a list of Foreign rrrends good people in whose hands the Freeman will The Eisenhower Blues ·····CANDI:pE 236 be an aid and weapon." Heart-warming news comes also from the Arts and Entertainments university front. A student majoring in so­ Revival of the Unfittest WILLIAM S. SCHLA~M 243 ciology at Kansas State College who is en­ thusiastic about our articles, writes us that he i" 250 Letters was introduced to the Freeman by a retired This Is What They Said i" 237 manufacturer who is an equally enthusiastic subscriber. Another college scout reports that the copies of the Free1nan on a fraternity­ THE FREEMAN is published every other week. Publication Office, Orang~, Ct?nn. IEditorial house table in Ohio are getting dog-eared from and General Offices, 240 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. \opynght. m thle Umted States, 1952, by the Freeman Magazine, Inc. John Chamberlam, PresIdent;: F<;>rrest frequent perusal. And from Villanova comes Davis, Secretary; Alex L. Hillman, Treasurer; Suzanne La Follette, 1\sslstant this high praise: "The Freernan is excellent in Treasurer. i Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Orange, Conn. Rates: T"1enty-fi..~e all departments and maintains a standard of cents the copy; five dollars a year in the United States, nine dollars for two Yrars; SlX dollars a year elsewhere. literacy which is well-nigh astounding. Every The editors can not be responsible for manuscripts submitted but if return ppstage is issue seems to contain at least one or two ar­ enclosed they will endeavor to see that manuscripts rejected are promptly returined. ticles which are not only good, but really out­ It is not to be understood that articles signed with a name, pseudonym, or initials neces­ sarily represent the opinion of the editors, either as to substance or style. They are standing, the kind that most publications of printed because, in the editors' judgment, they are intrinsically worth reading. your type come up with not oftener than every Printed in U.S.A.. by 'The Wilson H. Lee Co.. Orange. Connecticut II six months or so." The case of Ray Barber and American Enterpris~ Ever wonder if your employees " surveys are strictly confidential understand the principles of American Finding the right spot fOr your ne"w plant ... the right kind Enterprise? Ray Barber does, because he of labor supply for your operation can be a costly, time-con­ makes it work for him every day of his life! suming job for you and your organization; let our experts in Ray is the kind ofman who sticks on the this field make the task easy by preparing a special PIN-POIN~ job a long time. He's worked for Armco in survey to meet your requirements. For further information write .The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Industrial Develop­ Ashland, Kentucky for twenty-two years. ment Department, Terminal Tower, Cleveland 1. Ohio. Like his father and grandfather before him~ Ray's roots are deep in his own community He owns his own home ...right next door to the house where he was born. Like thousands of other people in the Chessie Corridor, Ray has his own little farm. Here, year in and year out, he's watched the principle of American Enterprise in action. Ray Barber knows you can't make a crop without first planting the seed. He knows it's what's put into a job that determines what comes out. We're mighty proud ofRay Barber Chesapeake and Ohio Railway because he's a typical example ofthe kind of people who live and work in SERVING: VIRGINIA • WEST VIRGINIA • KE:NTUCX,Y C & O's Center of Opportunity. OHIO • INDIANA • MICHIGAN • SOUTHERN ONTARIO reemanTHE M 0 N DAY, DEC E M B E R 2 9, 1 9 5 2 the world's most idiotic pyromaniacs. Communist The Fortnight anti-Semitism may win some converts to Marxism, or at least to cooperation with Soviet imperialism, The McLiberal press, to whom General MacAr- in the Moslem countries; but no one can align him­ thur ranks as a whipping boy with Senator self with racist injustice and come out of it alive Taft, missed quite a scoop in its handling of the in the long run. Hitler, Streicher, Goring, Gobbels General's speech to the NAM. The New York Times and, finally, Mussolini, tried it; they are all dead. for example, printed the story on page 14-quotin~ And the shadow of the Grim Reaper now looms the General's declaration that "there is a clear and over the walls of the Kremlin. definite solution to the Korean conflict"-ignored it editorially, and left it to General Eisenhower four The new head of the CIO, Walter Reuther, is days later, to discover that such a pronounc:ment, labor's liveliest spokesman. He is also a man of coming from the man who defeated Japan and com­ many ideas. During the war he had ideas about manded brilliantly in Korea until his summary raising and salvaging the N ormandie, about utiliz­ dismissal, was important news. And only after ing automobile factories for the mass production Truman's display of what one commentator wittily of planes, and about redistributing incomes over called "sour grapes of wrath" did the Times dis­ $25,000 per annum in order to equalize sacrifice in cover that the General had "lost stature" by mak­ behalf of the war effort.
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